The Sun

Agree there - as much as i dislike the bottler .. this is appalling journalism.

When they were knifing Major the Liars loved it. Now the boot is on the other foot they hate it.
The party of McBride cannot complain of smear campaigns.

agreed, NL love gutter journalism when its helping them..

Still waiting to hear any comment from Milliband about the Jack Jones KGB revelations, he was happy to smear the Tories about their Polish friends, but dosnt say anything about a Labour hero who betrayed THIS country..

Its all very distasteful, just an honest mistake by Brown.

But it underlines how totally useless he is, he cant do the simplest thing right and has to spend days justifying why he cant write neatly. Surely the deluded fool has got to realise that everybody is fed up with him.

Would it have happened if the government had allowed Murdoch to purchase that extra newspaper he needed to make the full set ?

The Sun's role in this (non-)story really is quite depressing.

When they were knifing Major the Liars loved it

That was his own party doing that, with the gutter press giving them a helping hand.

Dr C- Campbell and Whelan were up to there oxsters in feeding filth to the Sun before the Bliar enthronement.
To hear Whelan taking the self rightous moral high ground on the radio this morning was cringeworthy.

its like something out of monty python, only the sun could claim a huge scandal over a word looking like james instead of janes

no good sl@gging the Sun
isn`t it the countrys biggest selling paper?, so millions sympathise with it`s views and standpoints.
same as capital punishment and being anti Europe, the majority views in this country.

The Sun is and always has been the mouthpiece for R Murdoch and the interests of News International. The only reason they supported Blair was because he was obviously going to win and they didn't want to be on the losing side. Sadly Blair seemed to spend a lot of time and effort keeping the Sun and Daily Mail onside the result of which saw Labour rush to the right to appease people who hate everything a real Labour government should believe in. Perhaps any future government of the left will put a ban on foreign ownership of newspapers as in the USA, and investigate media companies tax positions whose patriotism may not extend to paying British taxes.
Perhaps it should tell us how much tax it's parent company pays towards "Supporting our Boys"

From the BBC in 1999 i dont know the current situation but dont suppose it's changed much:-

Further research reveals that Mr Murdoch's main British holding company, Newscorp Investments, has paid no net corporation tax within these shores over the past 11 years. This is despite accumulated pre-tax profits of nearly £1.4bn. Payments were made in some years, but in others rebates were claimed.

The Newscorp Investments stable includes newspapers such as The Times and The Sun as well as a 40% share in the satellite broadcaster BSkyB. Had it paid the full 30% rate on its 1998 profit of £309m, it would have netted the Exchequer £92m. (Enough to buy thousands of school textbooks, something that the Murdoch press is currently encouraging parents to do by way of collecting newspaper tokens.)

But while just about any company worth its stock valuation will seek to trim its annual tax bill, Mr Murdoch's die-hard loyalty to the tax loophole has drawn wide criticism.

no good sl@gging the Sun
isn`t it the countrys biggest selling paper?, so millions sympathise with it`s views and standpoints.
same as capital punishment and being anti Europe, the majority views in this country.

Put tits in the Morning Star and charge 20p for it and that will become Britain's biggest selling paper.
As I recall not even its readership actually believes the Sun's political line.

I for one dont mind what tactics The Sun use to get this moronic lying useless bunch out of power...Not that I think the alternative will be any better.. but this current mob just have to go !

Bentley, I agree with you, there should be a block on ANY foreigner
buying a newspaper in this country, but WE should go farther and not allow a foreigner to become a naturalised English person to get round the law , as has happened in America, the guy was already a multi millionaire in Australia, yet the greedy illegitimate wanted more so he forsook his nationallity to become American, just to play political games , which in most cases support the establishment in whichever country and circumnavigates our SO CALLED DEMOCRACY.

Don't buy the S*n. Justice for the 96 etc etc

I only read the sun for the page 3 girls view on things.

Brown is once again humiliated, this fool shoud go now and spare this country more damage.

All newspapers use the sufferings of others to raise sales. Most papers are full of death and destruction. Why the fuss?

To hear the mother list her son's appalling injuries was about as moving a thing I've heard on radio. Mostly we're told a soldier has been killed by a bomb, but rarely do hear what injuries killed him..

War is hell. Bring them home.

The exploitation of the grieving mother is an interesting example of our so called "free" media.

The Sun breaks the story. The Sky News hypes it up and makes it a major "incident".

Then its headline news and the PM has to do a press conference to justify what was a private and actually quite worthy thing - to personally write to the families of soldiers killed doing their duty.

To an extent the story rather backfired on Murdoch. People I suspect rather saw through his manipulation of the news and his unveiled attack on the PM and rather loathed his unscrupulous attack through the vulnerable grief of a distraught mother.

However its a really terrible thing when our news and our politics are under so much influence of a single unelected Australian American, who cares nothing about our country but everything about the power he can use to wreck our democracy.

Ruth - this could be a watershed in the way the Murdoch media is viewed. This has been a massive mistake by an organisation which is usually on the ball.

Also Murdoch wants to take on Google and start charging for internet content - maybe he is over stepping his mark and as been said before its the beginning of the fall of a media Empire.

Wasn't Murdoch Empire on the verge of total collapse about a decade ago. he's ridden the boom and now about to maybe hit the rocks. probably trying to**it so the Tories give him some sort of fiscal stimulus/advantage. He may as well use whatever clout he has when he has it.

As for the internet & google. He used new technology to whallop the print unions and now new technology is whalloping him.

maybe its not old rupert but his spoilt brat son who is calling the shots these days

You cacelled SKY yet neo or are you still lining Rupert's pockets?

still lining his pockets blackie, and also with my regular purchase of the sunday times

Doesn't surprise me neo, you have no principles whatsoever, just what suits you best